The media project of interactive art «IN BETWEEN» took place in Graz, Austria on June 27 - July 10. Ukraine was represented there by a curator from Kharkiv, a researcher of contemporary art Victoria BAVYKINA. Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation provided Viktoria a travel grant to participate in the project.
The main theme of this year's project was the idea of InBetween - between/through certain phenomena, currents, people, subjects. This term became the quintessence of the whole idea of the project - the space between artists engaged in media art and works exclusively with new multimedia technologies and artists who use more classical materials and techniques in artistic work.
The project was attended by 15 artists from 11 different countries, who created a full-fledged exhibition of interactive art in two weeks.
«My function was to coordinate the work process and to represent Ukrainian contemporary art, to introduce foreign participants into the actual Ukrainian cultural context. The opening of the project, which took place on July 8, attracted about 250 spectators, among them, were cultural figures from Graz, Vienna, and Salzburg. Also during the preparation of the final exhibition, open lectures and workshops for all interested persons, presentation meetings with young cultural actors and young artists about Ukrainian contemporary art and the main trends that are currently dominant there were held» - the curator noted.
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Viktoria BAVYKINA is a curator, art manager, publicist, researcher of contemporary art and political art. She holds the Ph.D. in the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. She was a project manager at the Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, the curator of the Night of Museums (2012-2014), coordinator of the NonStopMedia Biennale of Modern Art (2012, 2014) and others.
She is an organizer of the festival «The Week of Women's Solidarity «Gender-horizontal» (2015, Kharkiv). In addition, she is a Co-coordinator of the international media project «Sex Dialogues». From 2014, she has been a journalist and publicist in such editions as «Korydor», «Ukrainian Truth. Culture», «AroundArt», «Left Bank», «Platform».
The Open Ukraine Foundation provides travel grants for travel costs for Ukrainian artists to exchange artistic experience at the international level and to improve cooperation between Ukrainian and foreign artists. These grants give Ukrainian artists the opportunity to present their achievements around the world.
